This is a nerdy post, so anyone who isn't interested in computers and technology may freely ignore this post without worrying about missing anything exciting.
So tonight after a couple occurrences where my Linksys WTR54G router hung I decided to look into whether there were any new updates to its firmware. And as a matter of fact there was, so I switched over to the wired computer (the PC I am preparing for my aunt Betty) and downloaded the latest firmware. When doing this I went through Linksys' Canadian site, rather than the US, and discovered a discrepancy in the version numbers between the US & Canadian versions of the site. In trying to figure out if there was any differences between the two versions I recalled there being some alternate 3rd-party firmware for my router.
A quick search on Wikipedia yield some information and a few different options. After a short time humming and hawing I decided to give it a go and try out DD-WRT. After a check, and than a couple more double-checks, I did it...I upgraded my Linksys WRT54G with the latest--v23 sp2--DD-WRT software.
So far I have no complaints about the switch, in fact the interface provides a lot more status information and seems to have features which weren't found in the official firmware. One of the most notable being that you can run the router as network bridge (I paid a pretty penny for a stand-alone device which does this).
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